Bones of Our Land – Tsz Wai Pun and Coşkun Güçlü

About

Created by artist Tsz Wai Pun and ecologist Coşkun Güçlü, this multimedia project focuses on a single hillside undergoing ecological restoration on the Northern slopes of Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong, tracing its ecological and human history and reading its soil as a record of recent ecological change and deep evolutionary time. The layers of this installation present time as something that accumulates at multiple scales, alongside connection in the midst of uncertainty.

Through film, sound, archival materials, photography, scientific fieldwork, and soil DNA analysis, the artists approach the hillside as a palimpsest, a landscape continuously rewritten across centuries and beyond. Volcanic geology, agricultural history, destructive hill fires, colonial intervention, and ongoing ecological restoration are all layered within the same landscape. In this reading, a single hillside becomes a site of entanglement, where past, present, and future do not unfold in sequence but coexist and refract through one another.  Bones of Our Land invites us to listen anew to the soil, the forest, and the living archive buried beneath our feet.

Co-curated by Chloe Chow, Louise Fedotov-Clements, videoclub and Gallery Lock In. Commissioned by WMA, a non-profit platform dedicated to facilitating greater understanding of Hong Kong through lens-based art, for the 2025/26 theme Hope.

Tsz Wai Pun and Coşkun Güçlü bring together artistic and ecological approaches, combining lens-based practice, fieldwork and scientific research to explore the histories and changing ecologies of Tai Mo Shan.

What to expect
The exhibition is wheelchair accessible and presented in a low-light environment. Moving image, sound, photography and installation are used throughout the space, creating an immersive experience that visitors can explore at their own pace.

School visits are available by appointment.